Farewell to Stockopedia
After three great years at Stockopedia — filled with hundreds of company analyses, articles, webinars and conversations with subscribers (I’ve enjoyed every single one) — I’m gearing up for my next adventure. It’s going to be a big one…
In October, I am going to set off in a bid to become the fastest woman to run around the full coast of the island of Great Britain.
Why and why now?
When I was 10, my uncle walked around the coastline of Britain in aid of Parkinson’s Disease research. He was 33 at the time and had been diagnosed with an early onset version of the condition a few years previously.
I remember being very proud of Uncle Tom, especially when he came into school to present the prizes, but as far as walking the coast went, to my 10 year old brain, it was nothing out of the ordinary. That’s just what Uncle Tom did.
I’ve long harboured an ambition to follow in his footsteps. To see the whole of Britain’s coastline, meet people from all around the country, see the sea every day. That desire has become particularly strong in the last few years as I have spent time falling in love with long distance and trail running. Running the coast paths of the UK, has become a burning ambition.
But I have never really had a good enough reason to do it. I love being a financial journalist. I love hunting out opportunities, meeting managers and analysing the numbers. But most of all, I love helping other people see the full benefits of the stock market. While I’ve been focused on work (and the other things that most normal people do with their days), running Britain has become nothing more than a secret dream.
Until January of this year, while I was out running the coast paths in Suffolk, and the reason for running Britain crystallised in my mind.
It was at the end of one of those weeks that had been quite depressing for British investors (and the population as a whole). Lower than expected growth statistics, worrying tax changes and the continued exodus of companies from the London market.
But as I ran past the pig fields, the nuclear power station at Sizewell, the fishing boats hauling in their catches, and caught glimpses of the brewery at Southwold, the distillery in Aldeburgh and the wind farm out to sea, I marvelled at the amount of activity happening in just my small patch of coastline. It made me think that maybe spending more time writing about all that is great in Britain, might be a more productive way of encouraging better engagement in public markets. And more optimism for British companies and the London Stock Market is surely a better way of encouraging the country back into growth mode than taxing its way there.
Run Britain therefore has three main aims:
- To become the fastest woman to run the coastline of Britain by stringing together 200 days of consecutive marathons.
- To meet and write about as many great British businesses as I can along the route.
- To raise money and awareness for the Samaritans.
You can read more about all of those aims and the story behind the run on my website.
The Run Britain Portfolio
I must thank the Stockopedia community for inspiring some faith in the UK markets in the last few years. I don’t think I have made much of a secret for my general lack of enthusiasm for British stocks and have always been quick to hunt out growth opportunities overseas.
But the ongoing engagement in British stocks by this community has encouraged another big part of my mission: The Run Britain Portfolio.
I have set up this exclusively UK-focused investment portfolio for two reasons. The first is to make my savings work hard for me while I am on the road. And the second is to provide an easy-to-follow direct equity portfolio of British stocks for people to engage with.
I’ve sold all my US shares and have invested my ISA fully into a handful of great British stocks which tick the boxes of my favoured strategy: compounding quality. It’s definitely a strategy that is necessary for my mission because I am going to need a portfolio which doesn’t need much looking after (running Britain is going to be quite time consuming) and doesn’t keep me up at night (I will need my sleep).
You can follow my portfolio on my Substack here.
I don’t hit the road until the middle of October, so I will still be hanging around the markets and writing bits and pieces until then. But with a summer of planning and organising and fundraising ahead, it’s time for me to bid farewell to Stockopedia.
Thanks for being a great community and for always providing a reason to be excited about British markets.
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Ive read you at the IC and here Megan. Sad to see you go. Good luck with your project and go well.
I have just read your website with interest and the trials and tribulations you have experienced over the last few years. It provides some context as to why you have decided to invest so much time, effort and money into this project, given what you have experienced recently and leave Stockopedia, which I and many others, I am sure, am sad about. I shall miss reading the articles/blogs you publish and the webinars you have hosted or contributed to.
However, this project you are embarking is obviously something that is close to your heart, so I say, go for it. Life is precious and we only get one stab at it, so make the most of the experiences. If I had to give you one piece of advice, is that just take 1 day at a time and don't look too far ahead. It's a serious physical challenge you're embarking on, a daunting one at that, and looking too far ahead, might sometimes feel that its insurmountable, though it can be achieved with the right support. I will enjoy reading your blogs and updates on your website as you wind your way around the coast of Britain on your journey.
I'm sure you can do it. Will be following your journey with interest.
Good Luck.
Noel
Thank you for your lovely message and wise words Noel, you are definitely right about one day at a time - with marathon running it is sometimes just one step at a time!
Megan , you will no doubt pass through Laugharne in Carmarthenshire a township on the estuary and the coastal path. Famous for Dylan Thomas's boathouse where he wrote Under Milk Wood and more. Give me a shout and will buy you a drink in Brown's Hotel, his old watering hotel. Charles
Thanks for all your input Megan. We'll look out for ya in Aberdeenshire. You're gonna love the views along the NW of Scotland too and in particular from Ft.William to Oban (a little flatter). Take care and good luck.
Thank you - really looking forward to that chunk of the coast.
Go girl!
Good luck Megan. I have enjoyed reading your articles at the IC and on here.
Good luck Megan!
Good luck Megan and hope to see you back here sometime!
Good luck megan!
Good luck! Are you leaving Stockopedia full time or will you be returning? Always look forward to your articles.
Thank you very much! I'll still be popping up here occasionally, but my main focus now is my Run Britain Portfolio (which I am covering on Substack) and Investor's Champion.
An excellent and honest journalist. I have always read with interest your notes on quality stocks.
Good luck Megan, my friend recently completed a walk around the coastline of Britain. She loved it. Camped a lot too in some of the worst weather. A fox stole her tent. Watch out for the foxes.
Amazing! I think it’s incredible when people camp, I am not sure I am quite up to living quite so wild, I will have a van to sleep in at least.
Does your friend happen to be Linzi Bell?
Hi Megan no it’s Claire Allen, she won the just giving endurance fund raiser award. https://www.instagram.com/clai...
Claire is absolutely lovely. Such an inspiration.
Amazing, have a great time Megan!
Good luck Megan, always liked your articles on stocko.
Don't run too close to the edge, I can think of a few places around the coastline where it's been particularly hairy ! I can proffer a couple of great b&bs in North West Scotland from my drive around the NC500. Good luck
Just wanted to say wow and best of luck. Your insights and presence on the seminars will be missed. May you have a fantastic and trouble free time in all aspects of your adventure and be unhindered by terrible weather and other travails. Have bookmarked your website and will be following along. Why have you decided to sell out of all your US stocks? You were a big fan (I've been a stickler for the UK).
Thank you for your message and your support - I hope the trip is trouble free too!
Regarding the US stocks, it was really a financial decision. I am investing a lot in my project and needed the cash from what has (largely) been quite a successful US portfolio.
And I wanted to go all in on the support for British markets. I do believe things are starting to turn (although there are still going to be ups and downs) and there are enough really high quality stocks here to populate my portfolio. I really wanted to focus on what we have here and not get distracted by the Disneys and Adobes of this world.
I applaud you for that. I’ve been purely in uk stocks and have done very nicely. My uk sipp is actually sitting at over 27% for the year based on current valuation - money input and thats with not all dividends in yet for the partial year. I based it on naps plus adjusted for some dividend stocks and a few momentum stocks. The divvy stocks keep some cash coming in to ensure I can keep investing when near fully invested and pick up some opportunities when spotted. Stockopedia and the seminars you hosted have been a boon. I’ll enjoy following both your runs amd your company discoveries and uk reinvestments. The very best of luck to you. May both your epic running journey and financial one be enjoyable, fruitful and successful and bring you wonderful experiences along the way.
One of my issues with the us under Trump is that as trump weakens the judicial system, weekend regulation and weaken reporting controls the trust I have in the information that’s coming out of US companies is being eroded. The us may grow but I think it’s hollow.
On the business and scientific side there are angles that do not appear to have been examined, either in your presentation or in the comments.
Dedicated individuals, all-over-the-place, in all sorts of companies and laboratories are working on ideas to make a better world.
The depressive illness aspect is well known; physical activity, especially running, generates endorphins in our circulation plus other 'feel good factors.' Pushing boundaries, as you will do, is bound to be of interest to some scientist if well documented.
The treatment of injury is maybe not so well known. I have experimented with a number of homeopathic remedies, bandages, straps and orthotic supports, all manufactured by some of those dedicated individuals. Promoting them does not produce profits, the mass market is not interested, but your word skills from a unique tribune are bound to help them be recognized.
Then there is clothing. Putting one foot in front of the other all day, everyday makes one sensitive to the details of how each part of the body is interacting with its 'casing.' Underwear and shoes obviously but also rain gear which must be breathable. Facility in putting on and taking off the hood while still running is a top priority and reaching down far enough to protect you but not too far to constrict movement, a factor.
In all the companies that make these items are dedicated individuals collecting data from dedicated athletes. They may ship the manufacture-plans to a cheap-labour country but that makes it affordable and keeps everybody working.
The auto and bike manufacturers employ scientists and engineers and you may find several aspects of your support vehicles that are particularly helpful to stopping, starting, eating and drinking.
Nothing so far is particularly British but culture and logistics are.
Every time I plan a trip, the huge network of volunteers in organisations ranging from hiking and biking paths to the National Trust or YHA come up with solutions that suit my budget and need to fit the plan to reality. France is the world number one destination with similar infrastructure. Tourist dollars could be won with your writing about the U.K. coast.
U.K. Adventurers abound and have done for centuries and that tradition has generated a vast amount of knowledge. Just look at the subscribers who are walking or planning similar routes.
There is a danger that the most generous will not necessarily supply you with the best product. You can explain the difference between corporate policy and what happens on the trail. Many expeditions owe part of their success to corporate sponsors.
Unsolicited advice makes me mutter 'you think I did not know?'
At least it forces me to clarify why I am going to follow it or not.
So here is an another opportunity for you.
Thank you for this - you have definitely given me a lot to think about. I definitely want to use the project (and hopefully any platform that I gain from it) to do as much good as possible and you have a bucket load of great ideas.
I am in the process of reaching out to see if any production company might want to follow the trip and document it, I am hopeful it will generate some interest.
You could also do your own YT series from it, pretty easy to use and iphone and imovie, might be a nice little earner while you're away!
Thank you for the suggestion, it’s a great idea. I definitely want to get my YT channel up and running.
Megan, heartfelt thanks to you for all of your hard work creating so much wonderful and informative content. Your contributions have always been so positive and open which only made reading about your struggles an even greater shock . It's quite staggering the courage and resolution you have shown in being open about it in such a public way, in creating something so positive and inspiring from it and facing down your demons with such an extraordinarily difficult challenge. I wish you every success and happiness on your great endeavour.
Thank you John for your message and for all your support of the content here at Stockopedia
I wish you every success Megan. I bet that you will never regret it and will have a bank of memories that will last you for ever. At the age of 62 I hung up the desk and embarked on the K Walk. I walked from Kanya Kumari to Kolkata up the east coast of India in memory of my daughter Katie who had taken her own life some five years previously. I was raising funds for a charity called Future Hope which looks after underprivileged children in Kolkata. Katie and I visited the charity together in 2000.
If you can, allow yourself the time to interact with people along the way
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. What an amazing thing to do in Katie's memory and a very inspiring story.
Wow!! What an amazing challenge to undertake. Good luck with it - I'll be following with interest - but for now a huge thank you for all your excellent contributions to Stockopedia.
This is an amazing challenge Megan, takes real determination to go from talking about it to doing it so hats off to you. Really impressed. I clicked through to your website and saw your route and all the information. Best of luck, if you still feel like you have energy at the end of it. Join us for Britain's most southerly marathon in Jersey. Since you have joined stockopedia, I have found myself engaging with it much more, and loved the podcast series you did. Best of luck for the run, and I hope you raise lots of money for a worthy cause
Thank you for your lovely message. And yes the Jersey marathon does appeal - I definitely have the bug for running at the moment.
Such an impressive challenge, hope you scour the market for quality footwear like you search for quality stocks!
You are an inspiration Megan . Very Best Wishes for your endeavour and for such a good cause . I shall look forward to following your adventures .
Hats off to you Megan, what an ambitious challenge WOW!!! Like others in this chat, if you fancy/need running companions, please let us know. Ben, family and friends x
Always on the lookout for running companions. I will have my Strava and tracker live once I hit the road, it would be great to meet you.
What a fantastic challenge to take on. I wish you all the best for a successful outcome. I have been a long distance/ ultra runner since a friend and I watched the first London marathon on TV in March 1981 and had a bet about whether I could run a marathon. Over four decades later I have racked up hundreds of on and off road marathons, lots of ultras ( including the Comrades marathon mentioned earlier), and many happy days running in the fells. I once did a charity run from Glasgow to London which was a fantastic experience. I am sure that you will meet lots of amazing people, see many parts of our wonderful island that most people never do, and achieve something amazing. I have probably regretted some of the time that I have spent glued to a screen over the years, but have never regretted a moment that I have been in the great outdoors running! Myself and my running club are not that far from the Yorkshire coast and I am sure we would be able to come and support when you get to this part of the world.
Amazing! It sounds like you have had some incredible running adventures. I am really excited to meet and hear more stories like this. There are some inspiring people out there!
It would be great to meet you and your running club once I am Yorkshire-way - I'll be on the home stretch by then so hopefully in good spirits!
Very best of luck with your challenge Megan. I will miss your company reviews as I tend towards quality momentum and value momentum if I can find it! I expect you are wise to have a good quality UK portfolio if you seek low maintenance as I suspect the US will remain choppy with the current administration.
Good luck again
Greyster
Wow Megan, hats off to you. If you plan to include the 125mile Anglesey coastal path and need any help / free holiday let accomodation, then steal my contact details from stocko before you go! Good luck.
Just WOW - I can't comprehend that level of strength, will power, determination and fitness. Very best wishes in your endeavour - truly awesome.
The Woman in the Yellow Top.
A long time ago, gosh, almost ten years, I was watching an investment discussion hosted by Harriet Russell, who I think is at the Telegraph now. It was recorded in the old FT offices with a view over the river.
I’d had a hard week at work, and I was watching this discussion, feeling envious of the people on my screen, working in a fancy office, and being paid to discuss shares and investing. For me, it was a hobby I could only squeeze in at the weekends.
It’s funny how memory works: I can’t remember a single thing about what was being discussed. It was probably about companies that had reported results that week. But I do remember one thing, vividly. One of the contributors was wearing a canary yellow blouse and a white cardigan. I can still picture the scene in my mind’s eye.
I was impressed with the contribution to the discussion, “the lady in the yellow top will go far.”
I subscribed to the Investors Chronicle for years. I tended to jump straight to the article text without really knowing who the author was. Occasionally, I was so impressed by the article I was reading that I would stop to go back and check the byline to find out who had written it. Over time, I realised the same names wrote these ‘showstoppers’: Robinson, Clarfelt, and Boxall - the woman in the yellow top.
You always put a little bit of yourself in your articles, which I enjoy because it adds a bit of a human element to the story. An article about Vodafone might begin with a reference to you overpaying for your handset after the contract ended, for example.
I remember you covered the Comcast / Fox / Disney / Sky takeover drama where it seemed like everyone was trying to takeover someone who was also trying to takeover someone else.
Many of your articles were in the pharmaceuticals sector. During lockdown, you wrote the cover feature about the companies leading the fight against Covid-19. I remember the image on the front cover, like a coronavirus structure but coloured like a target / bullseye.
Then one day, I noticed the articles had stopped and your name was no longer in the list of writers. I was disappointed. But then, you popped up here, and I was thrilled! More Boxall belters, but this time with added webinars!
I noticed an absence in 2024, and I even hovered over the keyboard, to ask if you had left, but I didn’t send it because I thought it was none of my business.
I now see that you have explained the reason for your absence on your website, and I am shocked and heartbroken to hear what you have gone through. It’s a reminder to all of us that one never knows what’s going on in someone’s life, behind a smiling profile photo.
I am glad you are on the road to recovery. I am impressed by your challenge, I’m a runner too but I’ve never gone further than a half marathon (1:31). I’d love to be able to join you on your run for a few miles, but I am far from the coast, and, lets face it, you’ve probably got the restraining order in place already! I wish you the best of luck with your challenge. I have donated and subscribed.
To the woman in the yellow top, you have entertained and educated me over the years. You are appreciated, cherished, and loved, through the pages and the screens. We don’t know each other but I am always here for you, in spirit if not in person. Please know that you will always have cheerleaders in your life. You might not think they are there. But they are. Always.
Thank you so much for such a lovely message. It’s made me cry.
I remember that discussion with Harriet well and I can’t believe it was almost 10 years ago - time flies. I remember being very nervous about all the fancy equipment at the old FT building and not feeling like I was quite up to the task of talking about companies on camera. My goodness, I loved it though. You’re right - we were very lucky to be able to be chatting about companies for a living. It was so much fun.
I am looking forward to spending more time talking about companies on camera while I am on this adventure (although without the fancy offices).
I would absolutely love to meet you in person at some point on the coast. Please do come along if you can find anywhere convenient to join me for a few miles - perhaps we can push the distance beyond half marathon.
Thank you again your lovely words, an emotional trip down memory lane and incredibly generous donation.
Wow…inspiring stuff Megan….i will be an enthusiastic sponsor of your endeavours
Wonderful Megan! Good luck!
Well done Megan, this a great plan, hope it goes well. I will be following you with interest. I'm also on the Suffolk coast.
Go for it Megan - wish you every success -hopefully there's no "Indian Summer" in October and the weather is refreshing and bracing (in parts!). The pain, pleasure and challenges of the journey combined with your determination will inevitably generate new ideas and put the way ahead - and life into perspective. Many thanks for your involvement, ideas, write-ups, videos and more with Stockopedia. With every good wish....
Chris
Very well done Megan. This kind of story, your story inspires others to live life to it's fullest. I sympathise with your wish to see the sea every day and I hope to follow that particular dream very soon. My running days are over so now I just walk through this great countryside of ours. You will be missed. Have a wonderful and successful time.
Good for you and best wishes
Mark
Good luck Megan, this is a brilliant plan. I hope you get what you need from it.
Donated, and subscribed to your substack.
Cheers
Chris
Thank you very much for the support Chris, it’s hugely appreciated.
ATVM with a daunting challenge Megan, I shall track your progress with interest. I live near the UK's most easterly location - Ness Point in Lowestoft, where we see the sun first. I will try and join you as you pass on your final stages. I hope you get an emotional high from the challenge and raise a lot of money for a well deserved cause
What will you then do is the big question?
What an amazing place to live, I love the east coast sunrises. And am very much looking forward to the sunrise from Lowestoft on Day 198!
After Run Britain the plan is to continue my quest to help more people in Britain benefit from the stock market. So it will be back to financial education and writing about investments, for sure.
Good luck with your challenge - it's always best to look back with no regrets that you wished you had done something, but let it slip away!
Wow what an incredible endeavour- wishing you great luck, speed (and fortune?!?) and thanks for sharing your knowledge over the past 3 years. It’s also been great to see a female writer here to soften the boys club feel. Good luck and good speed, maybe see you back the other side?
Oh dear, just when the UK stock market is getting really interesting, still good luck and do it, you're only young once.
Megan, I was the CEO at Parkinson's UK for a number of years and knew your Uncle Tom very well. What an amazing guy who was such an inspiration to the Parkinson's community. I had no idea he was your uncle! All the best on your exciting journey and thanks for all your inspiration and input here.
Thank you for your message Steve and so nice to hear that you are a member of the Stocko community.
Good luck Megan and thanks for your articles and insights. Have fun on the trails and remember to stop and take in the views.
Great thing to do Megan - very best wishes on your admirable endeavour
Give West Bay Dorset, a wave, as you run by! All the best for the future.
Good luck Megan, a worthy cause and a lovely way to remember your uncle. Thank you for your interesting articles and videos at Stockopedia.
I wish you well in your future endeavors. All the best. Thanks for the education, over the mighty oceans here in oz. You'll be missed. Best of luck!!
All best Megan, come and run Ireland when you get your breath back from Britain.
Good luck Megan. Thank you for all your contributions on Stocko. A wonderful thing to follow your dreams!
Good luck with your great adventure Megan, you will be missed.
Wishing you all the best, I have really enjoyed your contribution to Stockopeida and will miss you on here, hope you have an amazing run , I am sure it will be a truly life changing experience, take care x
Good luck Megan ...
Thank you
i meant to say after Great Britain try this https://www.teararoa.org.nz/ all the best
You are crazy Megan - but that is the new normal - so best of luck - And running through the winter along the West Highland coast... Will look out for you from St.Peters Bradwell on Sea - Its Essex but a million miles from the crowds of Southend and very happy to support Samaritans
Thanks for your message. I will hopefully still be feeling quite fresh in Bradwell on Sea, definitely less so by the Scottish highlands!
Looks like JD Sports might be worth an investment then! All the best Megan.
I should probably have a look at it!
Wishing you every success Megan.
I'm sad that you've decided to move on, but you've obviously set your heart on this, so I guess you have to follow your heart. I will miss your contributions to the website, both articles and webinars, and especially those weekly pieces you did 12/18 months ago. They were very insightful. I wish you all the very best with this enterprise and to whatever comes next after that.
Check-out Richard and Adrian Crane
https://trailrunningnepal.org/...
It is incredible what these ideas lead to.
45 years after participating in a bare-foot study to calibrate the formation of calluses and corns by running without shoes, I have a very long list of adventures.
The hard parts were some of the social dislocation and material problems.
However some the highlights: Baffin island, Nepal, Greenland, Patagonia or just walking around Bath streets and hills have come flooding back with your post today.
Thank-you.
Good luck Megan. You will be missed, but I look forward to following your British stock picks
May you have the best of luck on this great challenge. Thank you for your rewarding investment suggestions.
That's a huge challenge. Wishing you the best of luck.
Megan, I wish you nothing but the best of fortune. You have taken on quite a challenge. I shall miss your podcasts.
good luck.
Bill
I am sorry to hear that you will be leaving stockopedia. The journey to run along the coastline seems exciting.Your targets seems achievable.Good Luck.
Thank-you for all your helpful contributions and engaging style.
good luck
Good luck!
Megan, what a wonderful challenge you have set yourself, congratulations! I will be interested to hear how you get on and for a great cause - The Samaritans. I have very much enjoyed reading your articles and look forward to hearing how your UK portfolio does!
I feel sad and excited.
You have been a great contributor and I have enjoyed your writing and talking.
We shall miss you at Stocko but moving on and new adventures, you must.
I will follow you and would like to get updates on your journey.
I hope you also consider appearing here as a guest from time to time if the circumstances are right.
Good luck and best wishes Megan.
I am impressed by your ambition and I hope you achieve the best female time. I am currently walking the sections of the Pembrokeshire coast path that I have never walked before, and I would echo the sentiments of the person who warned about the Jurassic coast - there is a lot of up and down in places. Here's a useful guide.
Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Incredible and inspirational! Thanks for all your dedication and writings over the past few years, I genuinely wish you all the best!
Megan
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The very best of luck to you - what a great adventure and such a worthy cause!
Jim
Wow! An amazing challenge with hopefully many fantastic adventures. Good luck.
Good luck with your project Megan. And glad you enjoy our lovely county (even if Milliband et al is intent on destroying its coastal belt)!
Fantastic Megan! All the very, very best! Look forward to seeing your updates and your name in the history books
Very best of luck Megan! I think it's fantastic that you are realising a dream! Im going to be starting Wainwrights coast to coast next Sunday, which has been in my bucket list for the last 30 years. It's a do it this year or forget it move. I think the record for running the c2c is 45 hours! Not for me! I'll be walking 15 miles a day, for 14 days, taking my time, taking it all in and enjoying the experience
That sounds like a far more civilised way of tackling the C2C . What an adventure, I hope you enjoy it (and the weather stays nice for you).
Hi Andy Sav, good luck and enjoy the C2C , we did it to finish in Robin Hoods Bay on my wife's 68th birthday. No days off but took 17 days for time to enjoy it. That what was 17 years ago following Wainright's route as closely as possible.
Good luck Megan, hope all goes well for you.
If you succeed in your bid, Megan, and I hope you do, be ready to take on an even harder challenge: the circumnavigation of the Isle of Skye. Should take you about the same amount of time ;-)
Haha that might be one for the summer, I'll keep you posted!
Megan,
That sure is a daunting challenge and I wish you the best of luck in realising it. I spend a lot of time in the Lake District and have met and know a few fell runners who are prepared to put themselves through unimaginable pain in pursuit of their goals, I think your choice is right up there! FWIW I also met a girl last year who had set out to run the Coast of England anti clockwise, albeit only in shorter sections at her leisure, I have no idea how much prep she had done but she did tell me that navigation on the more remote stretches was pretty tough and caused her a lot of problems. My wife and I have nearly completed the SWCP and I will check your schedule for that part of the run as I wouldnt want you holding us up :-))
Again Good Luck and I will take a keen interest in your progress.
Amazing on the SWCP, I am told that is the toughest part of the coastline so you have done the worst of it!
Amazing. We re so lucky to have some amazing women ultra runners in the UK. You have set this challenge up really well with lots of levels of interest. Wishing you all the best with it!
This is only about running.
The shares part is questionable logic. There are a lot of asset managers all over the world whose purchases and sales affect the value of whatever savings and whatever citizenship you hold.
However the running part is great. Greatness comes from goals that stretch us. Stretching is vital in both the mental and physical sense.
Some experts, doctors and sportsmen, say that warming-up beforehand and stretching afterwards makes no difference on the physical level. However I have avoided major injury and am still active, despite age, by preparation and all sorts of counter-movements after exercise.
About the same age as you, I took a reality check and concentrated on running for about 10 years. From jogging to work 5 days, to weekend speed work and competition, to marathons, to ultra-marathons and then back down as other realities appeared, it worked well, leading to other off-shoots.
Cross-country activities, hiking, biking, paddling, walking replaced running but the base activity and discipline is responsible for being streets ahead of my neighbours despite being older than most.
My friends, of course, are just as active and surprise us with crazy projects like Megan's. That's what happens, the law of attraction brings one in contact with those who make the best of life.
Wow Megan! What a fabulous idea and such a great cause! Very best of luck to you! Thanks for all your hard work on here, I’m sure it’ll be a life changing experience!
This is an amazing challenge Megan! Well done for making this inspirational decision, although hope the Suffolk coastline hasn't lured you in.... check out the Jurassic Coast for some lovely hills!!
I am into my adventures and have followed a few other individuals doing some amazing challenges and would recommend the following:
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn (and new film)
Barefoot Britain - Anna McNuff and vlog series:
?si=-PwZHqvqUM6NA1J1Running the World - Nick Butter
Finding Hildasay - Christian Lewis
It would be amazing if you could create some vlogs for us to follow your progress along the way, like Anna, and build a following and raise awareness and donations for the Samaritans. Let me know if I can help in anyway (I am south coast based)!
Which direction will you be running? I suppose you will need a support crew and places to stay along the way?
How Exciting !
Ben
Thanks Ben for your suggestions and also your wise words about the Jurassic coast. I am painfully aware that my nice flat Suffolk is lulling me into a false sense of security at the moment - I need to go and find some hills before I start!
I definitely plan to get a Youtube channel up and running with video content keeping everyone up to date. And I will definitely keep everyone posted on my progress if any coastal (or non-coastal) subscribers would like to join me for a chat as I pass.
I am running clockwise from Suffolk, which comes with positives (like running south as the days get shorter and north once they start getting longer) but also negatives (like the prevailing winds off the Atlantic).
Logistics-wise, I am in the process of sorting this out at the moment. And right now, it feels more daunting than the run, but the aim is to have a support crew and a camper van.
Thanks again for your message and hope to meet you on the coast path.
This is such a great initiative - and I do hope you smash that record.
Thanks for all the enormous hard work and effort you've put into your work here over the last few years - wishing you the best of luck for this next adventure!
This feels all the more impressive and inspirational as I tuck into my second ice cream of the day :-( Wishing you loads of luck, although it doesn't sound like you need it one bit.
Struth Megan! Wishing you all the best in this amazing challenge, enjoy it.
Jonny
Megan, best wishes and good luck on your bid to be the fastest woman around Britain! Thank you for all your views and content over the years. Again good luck and I will be taking a look at the Run Britain Portfolio.
Hat's off to you Megan. We lost our father who had Parkinson's for a long time. I remember him going on cross country walks until he was unable, but not around the country, there again he was a lot older than Tom. Making me sad. Well, I hope your shares do well while you are on your quest, the timing of your dealings could well turn out to be good. Will follow your links.
Wishing you every success Megan, sounds like quite a challenge but possibly very rewarding for you personally and the fundraising. Have enjoyed reading and watching your work and presentations both here and when you were with the IC.
Hopefully post the big running event we might see you back.
Best of luck.
What a great idea and reason to do it. Thanks for all your write ups. Very best wishes for the run.
Wow Megan, your post has electrified me on many levels. I'm 82 and ran 11 miles very early Sunday morning on deserted local country roads, I get your keep things in perspective part. One of my son's did the Comrades Ultra, we are into running and will follow the amazing challenge you're setting yourself. I've enjoyed your Stockopedia work and, being supportive of British companies applaud your investment in them. Good luck with all of it, I'm going to get my Comrades son who lives adjacent to us to come round and read this. I wish I could share it with to two other sons and two running grandsons!
Thank you very much for you response, kind words and inspiration. The Comrades Ultra is unbelievable, as is 11 miles at 82, especially in the height of the summer. All the best to you and your running family.
Didn't realise you lived in Suffolk Megan lovely part of the country, I reside in your mortal enemy Norfolk lol.
Good luck with the future from the title of the article I thought maybe you were off to JPM or such like but sounds like you have something far more interesting lined up.
Mortal enemy now, but Norfolk is no doubt going to look pretty good when I enter it around day 190 of 200 marathons!
Where both blessed beaches within an hour's drive, slower pace of life and still relatively safe areas of the UK to live in.
Good luck. See you in Southsea at some point!
Good luck with a seriously impressive quest Megan, and thanks for all your input over the last 3 years
Wow, Megan, seems like I'm the first to respond to this, having just read it. But it looks like a fantastic ambition, and I love the idea of linking it to folio of UK companies, to reflect your support and belief in this country. The Samaritans are of course, among the very best British charities, whose work is hugely important and thanks for doing that. I'm sure you'll be missed and I'll certainly take a look at your substack to see what ideas you come up with.
Allabest and make sure you keep us informed of your progress!
Brucie5.
Wow, what a challenge, good luck Megan!!